Collecting magic tricks presented in long-ago issues of Popular Mechanics, this handbook reveals the secrets behind 156 clever and amazing illusions. Conjurers 8 to adult will find such crowd-pleasers as the disappearing coin trick, mending a cut handkerchief, card levitation, the magic knot, and making "spirits" play the violin. And because Popular Mechanics has always made science fun, there's also a section of "magic" based on chemistry and physics, from the ghost sugar that bobs on the surface of a cup of coffee to cutting a thread inside a glass bottle.